The Battalname
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- Folklore, Legends, Myths, Mythology, Byzantium, Byzantine Empire, Asia Minor, Anatolia, Turkey, Warriors, Borderlands, Epics, Motifs, History, Historical, Medieval, Malatya, Melitene, Arabs, Greeks, Turks, Armenians, Paulicians
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The Battalname, translated from Turkish into English by Yorgos Dedes, in 246 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. The translation appears on pp. 99-334 of volume one of Dedes' two-volume work Battalname (Cambridge, Ma., 1996), and was made from a 15th-century manuscript. However, much of the tale itself dates back to a historical figure of the early 8th century, Abdallah al-Battal. The legends about him and his exploits centered around the city of Melitene/Malatya and turned into an epic of the borderlands, incorporating the wars against Byzantium fought over the centuries by Arabs, Saljuqs, and Ottomans. Seyyid Battal Ghazi, the hero of the present epic, also figures in the later Turkish epic, the Danishmendname (at Internet Archive, in French translation). These wonderful tales of astounding valor in war, cunning, love, supernatural beings, and magic should be compared with other similar epics and their identical motifs from the same part of Asia Minor: the Armenian David of Sasun, and the Byzantine Digenes Akrites (both at Internet Archive, in English translations). Compiled by Robert Bedrosian.
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